we use data on market sector productivity, R&D and non-R&D intangible assets, and public sector R&D spending. We look for … civil or defence R&D. Our findings tentatively suggest that for maximum market sector productivity impact government …

The US has experienced a sustained increase in productivity growth since the mid-1990s, particularly in sectors that … intensively use information technologies (IT). This has not occurred in Europe. If the US “productivity miracle” is due to a … abroad. This paper shows in fact that US multinationals operating in the UK do have higher productivity than non …

dynamic performance of the US economy before 1950. A comparison with the United Kingdom, still the world productivity leader …s and the 1940s. Furthermore, this earlier process of catching up was driven by the dynamic productivity performance of … exporter of manufactured goods not simply by catching-up in labour productivity terms, but by holding the growth of real wages …

, notably, into establishing the magnitude and sources of total factor productivity growth. …

The commonly accepted chronology for comparative productivity levels based on GDP data does not apply to the … manufacturing sector, where there is evidence of a much greater degree of stationarity of comparative labour productivity … compositional effects of structural change. The persistent large labour productivity gap between the US and Europe cannot be …

comparative productivity performance in food products and beverages and in chemicals in East Germany is well above this average …, but the productivity level in machinery and equipment is below 20% of the West German level. The study deals with the … comparative output and productivity performance in the past five decades. It appears that even after adjustments of the East …

on productivity, or have operated indirectly as barriers to the diffusion of productivity-enhancing innovations across …

This paper assesses the strength of productivity spillovers non-parametrically in a data-set of 12 industries and 231 …

A number of writers have recently questioned whether labour productivity or per capita incomes were ever higher in the … productivity lead in industry as early as 1840, especially in manufacturing, labour productivity was broadly equal in the two … countries in agriculture, while the United Kingdom was ahead in services. Hence aggregate labour productivity was higher in the …